Wednesday, January 29, 2014

While critics characterize the Gulen movement as a cult of personality, admirers prefer the term Hizmet movement, after the Turkish word for ‘service.’ And Aslandogan compared Fethullah Gulen to U.S. civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Speaking to the BBC's Newshour, Fethullah Gulen said: "It is not possible for these judges and prosecutors to receive orders from me."

Fethullah Gulen has been called Turkey's second most powerful man. He is also a recluse, who lives in self-imposed exile in the US.

An apparent power struggle between his followers and those around the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has reached a new pitch of intensity and loathing.
Since arriving in the US in the late 1990s, Mr Gulen, 74, has not given a single broadcast interview. What rare communication there has been with the media has almost exclusively been conducted via email.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Dr. Dogan Koc, Executive Director of the Gulen Institute at the University of Houston, lists the Hizmet (Gulen) Movement’s fields of activity in parallel with the three enemies of the society -namely poverty, ignorance and disunity- that they are aimed to eliminate. As Koc puts it, the movement’s activities fall into three main categories; education, aid/relief and dialogue all of which are developed and run by a voluntary basis.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Rumi Forum was founded in 1999 with the mission to foster interfaith and intercultural dialogue, stimulate thinking and exchange of opinions on supporting and fostering democracy and peace all over the world and to provide a common platform for education and information exchange. The principal goal of the Rumi Forum is to promote peace in the world and contribute to a peaceful coexistence of the adherents of different faiths, cultures, ethnicities and races.